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Mental Performance Support System (MPSS)

The ability to perform under pressure is a shared, trainable set of skills

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MPSS mental performance resources for coaches
Pocket Guide/Atlas: MPSS Pocket Guide and Visual Atlas

Helping athletes perform under pressure by training attention, emotion, and decision making.

Parents: MPSS mental performance resources for parents
Athletes: MPSS mental performance resources for athletes
Six Skills: Six MPSS mental performance skills
About: About the MPSS Mental Performance Support System

Flow MPCC provides MPSS, the Mental Performance Support System, a practical approach to mental performance coaching for athletes, coaches, parents, and programs. MPSS helps athletes reset after mistakes, regulate emotion, return attention, and perform with more consistency under pressure.

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Six Cognitive and Emotional Skills to Train Under Pressure

Pressure doesn't create new problems — it exposes the ones already there. These six skills form the practical core of MPSS: specific, trainable responses athletes can use in the moment a mistake, a bad call, or a stressful play threatens to take them out of the game.

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MPSS STOP Skill infographic showing the one-second reset: stop, breathe, observe, and proceed.
Connection Over Correction: MPSS Connection Over Correction infographic showing how coaches maintain connection and deliver effective feedback under pressure.
Mental Side-Out: MPSS Mental Side-Out infographic showing how volleyball players reset mentally and recover between points.
Rumination Recovery: MPSS Rumination Recovery infographic showing how athletes stop mental replay and return attention to the next play.
Radical Acceptance: MPSS Radical Acceptance infographic showing how athletes accept what already happened and refocus on what they can control.
Mindfulness Reset: MPSS Mindfulness Reset infographic showing a brief reset athletes can use to regain attention and composure under pressure.

ABOUT THE MENTAL PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM (MPSS)

MPSS gives athletes, coaches, parents, and directors a shared language for meeting pressure — with regulation, attention, connection, and adaptive action.

MPSS Performance Wheel: MPSS performance wheel showing the mental, emotional, behavioral, and connection skills athletes use to respond effectively under pressure.
Win the Moment Performance Loop: MPSS performance loop showing how athletes regulate, act, learn, and refocus to win the moment in front of them.

MPSS Manuals at Amazon

COACHES MANUAL

Coaches Manual: MPSS Coaches Manual for teaching mental performance skills to athletes.

Gives coaches a practical framework for understanding what athletes experience under pressure — and simple, usable tools for responding in real practice and competition environments.

PARENTS MANUAL

Parents Manual: MPSS Parents Manual for supporting athletes without amplifying pressure.

Helps parents become steady, co-regulating presences in their athlete's environment — supporting growth without amplifying pressure.

ATHLETES MANUAL

Athletes Manual: MPSS Athletes Manual for building focus, regulation, and recovery under pressure.

Helps athletes understand what happens inside them under pressure — and gives them repeatable skills to meet those moments with regulation, focus, and recovery.

POCKET GUIDE

Pocket Guide: MPSS Pocket Guide with portable mental performance skills and cues for athletes.

All core MPSS principles, skills, and cues in one compact, portable field guide. The system in your pocket — ready when pressure arrives.

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Developmental Library

Meditation & Mindfulness Practice

Skill Reinforcers

Developmental Library / “Not Yet”: MPSS developmental library exploring attention, regulation, resilience, team culture, and mental performance.
Meditation & Mindfulness / “Drop the Anchor”: MPSS meditation and mindfulness practices for regulation, reset, and present-moment focus.
Skill Reinforcers / “Next Job”: MPSS training cards and visual cues that reinforce mental performance skills in practices, gyms, and team environments.

A growing collection of free articles and explainers on attention, regulation, resilience, team culture, and the psychology behind MPSS. 

Free guided audio and video resources to support regulation, reset, and present-moment focus — for athletes, coaches, and parents.

MPSS training cards, posters, and visual tools for gyms and team rooms — reinforcing shared language where sport actually happens.

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